The Sims 4: Quick Gardening

Graft and Take Cutting to Get Rare Plants

Taking Cuttings, then Grafting them to existing plants will produce new types of plants, but only in the right combination!

Once you've leveled Gardening to 5, you can begin taking cuttings from plants in your garden and in the wild. These can then be grafted onto other plants. The base plant type determines the type of cutting you get as well as the graft result (so first listed in a plant that has multiple types growing). Having other harvestables growing from a plant doesn't matter, so long as the first one listed is the right type. So a tulip base cutting grafted onto a chrysanthemum base plant will produce bird of paradise.

The base type is what matters, not what else is on the plant. This applies to both grafting and take cutting. The base here is Orchid.

You can take cutting from either type of plant in this list and graft it onto the other. It works in both directions. Some plants grow faster than others, however, so I've listed them in such a way that the one you'll graft it onto is the faster-growing type of plant.

Common Plant Grafting

Why mess with those from seed packets? Well, the new fruit will be of the same quality as the base plant. So you can skip several evolution levels by getting it from grafting, while getting Gardening Skill XP in the process.

Grape (Common) - Graft Bluebell onto Strawberry

Parsley (Common) - Graft Sage onto Basil

Plantain (Common) - Graft Pear onto Lemon

Rare Plant Grafting

Bird of Paradise (Rare) - Graft Tulip onto Chrysanthemum.

Bonsai Buds (Rare) - Graft Daisy onto Strawberry.

Bonsai Buds (Rare) - Graft Roses onto Grape.

Pomegranate (Rare) - Graft Cherry onto Apple.

Dragonfruit (Rare) - Graft Snapdragon onto Strawberry.

Cow Berry (Rare) - Graft Dragonfruit onto Snapdragon.

Orchid (Rare) - Graft Lily onto Snapdragon.

Death Flower (Rare) - Graft Pomegranate onto Orchid.

Death Flower

Getting a death flower can be extrapolated by using the above info, but I'll simplify it for you here:

Graft Cherry to Apple to make Pomegranate

Graft Lily to Snapdragon to make Orchid

Graft Pomegranate to Orchid to make Death Flowers

Harvest the Death Flowers, Plant one, and enjoy unlimited Death Flowers, which can be given to the Reaper by another Sim to save his target from death!

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There are cherry trees in Oasis Springs near the Landgraab lot, In the neighborhood in Oasis Springs where the Caliente lot is, in Sylvan Glade, and the neighborhood of Windenburg where the pond is. You could find it tricky to find them with the grow fruit challenge currently on in-game as many players are reporting that wild trees are all becoming grow fruit.

Because of the Spring Challenge most of the wild cherry trees are grow Fruit at the moment. if you have Get Together there are cherry trees in the garden of the Von Haunt Estate where the huge maze is. After the challenge is over (April21st) the wild trees should revert back to their 'original' fruit and should be easier to find.Links to in-game screen shots of cherry tree locations

I found a Wild Cherry Tree in Sylvan Glade today (Saturday 4/15/2016) but there was only one there... and it died as soon as I harvested it's fruit. It gave me two cherries though, and now I have a couple of Cherry Trees growing on my lot.

Neat! You can also remove wild plants so that they spawn back. And taking 2 cuttings from one plant will always kill it. Weird that it died after you harvested it but wild fruit trees have been a little strange with the Spring Challenge.

You can find the lilies near the Oakenstead Lot in Willow Creek. (To the left under the 'cliffs' as you look at the front of the lot.) You'll have to have your sim there for a while for the plants to spawn and then for a bit longer before they will be grown enough to take a cutting.

This is a current bug. It has been fixed previously but seems to be back in some games. Have you tried cutting/grafting on your home lot as some people have reported not being able to cut/graft wild plants but can at home.Here is the open bug report read through to the most recent posts and you'll see that grafting works mostly on home lots so the work around is to harvest wild plants, grow them on your home lot where you can then graft to complete the plant collection etc.

Update your game as grafting/cuttings have been fixed and are all working as expected in my game now. Not quite sure which bit you are having problems with as you didn't tell me.If you're still having problems after updating your game, removing all/any mods and cc and testing in-game and trying a Repair Game option through the Origin Client, follow the link I provided in the above comment to the Bug Report and report it.

So, I'm having a bit of trouble, not sure if it is a big or I'm just not figuring something right. I'm trying to get a cow berry so I grafted a snap dragon onto a strawberry to get a dragon fruit, and it says the recipe is in my my notebook and it is, however I have all the "ingredients" but I'm not sure how to actually GET the dragon fruit? Help?

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